Riek Machar

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Nairobi, January 27, 2015--Five journalists were killed on Sunday when unidentified gunmen ambushed an official convoy in South Sudan's Western Bahr al Ghazal state, according to local journalists and news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the attack and calls on authorities to apprehend the perpetrators and hold them to account.

Nairobi, August 18, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns South Sudanese authorities' shutdown of the popular Catholic-run Bakhita Radio station in Juba, the capital, on Saturday and the ongoing detention of the station's news editor. Security agents raided the outlet in the morning and arrested four staff members, according to the station's managing director and news reports.

Last week, South
Sudanese Information Minister Michael Makuei warned reporters in the capital, Juba, not to interview the opposition
or face possible arrest or expulsion from the country. According to the
minister, a lawyer by profession, broadcast interviews with rebels by local
media are considered "hostile propaganda" and "in conflict with the law."

"This is the worst situation I ever
reported since I started reporting in 2007," BBC Media Action producer Manyang David
Mayar told me after he left the restive town of Bor, Jonglei State
in South Sudan. Forced to walk long distances carrying his suitcase on his head
to escape the fighting in Bor, Mayar drank dirty water and slept in the bush.